Rummy profits from bird flu/W's response to it

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:05 PM
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Rummy profits from bird flu/W's response to it

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/?cnn=yes
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Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.
October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST
By Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune senior writer

NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

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Tue Apr-24-07 10:07 PM
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1. A huge K&R for your post! I thought I was the only one...

who didn't forget that article.
More Flu 'Oddities' here:
http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
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Tue Apr-24-07 10:38 PM
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2. The extent of that hysteria was suspicious to me back then

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